The Stair Master Scenario (You will need tape for this)

"Slow day today. But it gives me some time to comment on things I've seen and experienced. Especially, the terrain and people of Afghanistan. In military terms we call this the operating enviorment, this sounds way cooler than people and terrain and I'm positive somebody used that as a bullet on their Officer Efficiency Report, "Renamed people and terrain into operating enviorment, thus streamlining the doctrinal template". I call this the happy to glad syndrome.

First, the greatest enemy we face here in Afghanistan. The terrain. It is vicious, cruel, unforgiving and beautiful. This may seem like a strange dichotomy but how do you describe something that's wonderful and can kill you faster than a bullet from an AK. Afghanistan is a country of mountains, these great dividers determine where, when and how you go somewhere. They isolate certain parts of the country and population so severely that when they finally see an American they think it's a Soviet. Remote is a word you finally understand here. There are few to no road networks and the roads that do exist are often mined with IEDs. Unfortunately, most of these IEDs are found by civilians when they travel the roads. There isn't much to see of a civilian vehicle that hit an IED, pieces of scrap and smoke, that's about it."
Afghanistan Shrugged